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<h1>Next Steps<a class="headerlink" href="#next-steps" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Geraldo Reports is an ambitious project. We want to provide much more than we have done so far.
See below the main goals we have to do in the future (and maybe you could help
us to reach them early)</p>
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<h2>Engine API<a class="headerlink" href="#engine-api" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><strong>Table band</strong> - a band to make it easy to create lists just using tables instead
of detail band and lines. Table band must be an alternative to detail band</li>
<li>Support canvas draw</li>
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<h2>Generators<a class="headerlink" href="#generators" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Generate in ODF formats (ODT and ODS)</li>
<li>Generate in HTML</li>
<li>Export/import structure to/from an XML format</li>
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<h2>Third-party tools<a class="headerlink" href="#third-party-tools" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Have a GUI tool to design reports, if possible to be used in a web browser</li>
<li>Have a way to create and print reports using a server, with no low level coding</li>
<li><strong>Django pluggable application to create fast reports</strong> (currently in development)</li>
<li>Have a preview component for GUI applications (GTK/Qt/wxPython)</li>
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<h2>Other features<a class="headerlink" href="#other-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>A better support to images and graphics</li>
<li><strong>Map/Reduce generating</strong> - split queryset, generate parts in parallel and combine them
after all - on one of both ways: local or distributed.</li>
<li><strong>Incremental/asynchronous generating</strong> - just take advantage of common part and update
the changed other part, specially useful when the order is datetime-based.</li>
<li><strong>Drill down reports</strong> - a link from a report &#8220;A&#8221; to a report &#8220;B&#8221;</li>
<li>Template system</li>
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